Doug Decatur

Doug Decatur is a baseball writer and one of the pioneers of the modern age of baseball analysis.^[1]

Career

Beginning in 1984, he worked as a statistical consultant to five major league baseball teams, the Cincinnati Reds, Milwaukee Brewers, Chicago Cubs, Houston Astros and Atlanta Braves.^[2]

Decatur is the author of Behind-the-Scenes-Baseball and Traded, both published by ACTA Sports, Chicago Illinois.^[2] Traded was ranked by the author Ron Kaplan as the 157th must read baseball book of all time in his book, 501 Baseball Books Fans Must Read Before They Die.^[3]

The book Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game and the movie Moneyball were vindication for all early statistical pioneers in major league baseball.^[4]

Decatur is also an accomplished playwright, having staged both 10-minute and full-length plays for Cincinnati Playwrights Initiative and The Village Players in Fort Thomas, Kentucky.^{[citation needed]} He has completed a fictional novel, Black Acre with his wife, the actor, playwright and publicist, Susan Medure Decatur.^{[citation needed]}